Artist: Joan Miró
Title: Escultor Japan
Medium: Original Lithograph, Edition of 1500
Dimensions: 8 x 16 Inches; 20 x 39 cm

This extraordinary work from Miro epitomizes his crucial shift from the realist art that characterized his previous canvases to the painting of imaginative space. Miro’s sudden transition from descriptive realism to surrealism took place shortly after the birth of the surrealist movement in Paris in 1924. The artist was captivated by the pictorial possibilities that surrealism offered with its insistence on the subconscious in the world of dreams. He began to produce highly experimental canvases, populating his paintings with imaginary ideograms on the subconscious in the world of dreams. Producing several highly experimental canvases, he populated his works with imaginary ideograms.